We proudly present - The Singing Sisters
- 2020/05/31 -
Everything began
some weeks ago with an e-mail that reached us from far-away Siberia. It
is there - seen from Israel at the other end of the world - that live
two Borromean Sisters whom we became acquainted with some time ago,
Sister Wiera and Sister Letycja, who are members of the Congregation of
the Sisters of Charity of St. Charles Borromeo and their mother convent
in Trebnitz (Poland). They are in charge of the catholic parish in the
Russian city of Kranojarsk. One evening last year, they rang the bell at
St. Charles because they were on a pilgrimage in the Holy Land and they
wanted to surprise us by their visit - and this proved to be absolutely
successful!
At the beginning of
May 2020, right in the middle of the world-wide Corona crisis, they
sent us an e-mail with a very special request: "We would be very happy
if you could join us in our Borromean musical project for Pentecost. The
only thing you would have to do is to practise in your mother language
the song which you find enclosed, to make a video of it performed as a
song or played by any instrument, and to send it to us."
It took no time at
all for us Sisters of St. Charles to agree and to confirm our
participation: a song with so many Borromean Sisters - that was exactly
our cup of tea! And although our guest house was completely empty at
that time, there were lots of activities going on here for some days
because we practised the song any time and wherever it was possible for
us, either individually or using our mobiles or our small headphones.
Herr Erwin Meyer, our experienced choir director, was responsible for
giving it the last touch. Together with our technically enthusiastic
Father Cristian Vacaru he transformed one of our guest rooms into a kind
of professional recording studio, equipped with the best available
audio and video material, and even with an adequate and changing visual
background: fantastic!
It took us a whole
day to finish the recording - and then we sent the result to our fellow
sisters in Siberia who were in charge of finalizing the project.
And of course we
were pretty curious to know who else might have accepted the invitation
from Siberia. And just in time for Pentecost our common musical video
was finished, and now it can be seen and listened to in different
languages and with Borromean Sisters from different countries and
continents.
58 sisters from the
congregations in Nancy, Grafschaft, Mikolov, Trebnitz, Prague and
Vienna have taken part in this common singing.
They represent 10
different countries - Mexico, France, Italy Austria, Poland, Russia,
Israel, Egypt, Zambia, and Senegal, and they all sing one song in so
many different languages:
We wish you
a
wonderful Pentecost
with the spiritual blessings of this day.
May the
Holy Spirit penetrate your lives,
and may all your decisions be made with
the help of God's wisdom!
German Hospice St. Charles Jerusalem - Lloyd George Street 12, 91080 Jerusalem, Israel - Tel. 00972 2 5637737 - info@german-hospice.de